[Atticus Kodiak 02] • Finder

As a bodyguard, Atticus Kodiak knows danger is part of the job. But he still can't shake his guilt over his best friend's death in their last assignment. As a bouncer at a hard-core club on the Lower West Side, Atticus is responsible for nothing more than keeping the scene under control. Until he sees Erika Wyatt, the teenage daughter of an Army colonel Atticus once guarded. Stalked by a cold-eyed commando fondling a wicked knife, Erika draws Atticus back into the protection business. In a case built on lies, vengeance, and sins of the past, Atticus is pulled into a vortex of treachery and violence, and learns that a promise can be the most dangerous weapon of all....

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Amazon.com Review

Professional bodyguard Atticus Kodiak is still having trouble dealing with the death of his best friend at the end of Keeper, Greg Rucka's well-received first thriller. So, in this exciting and suprisingly moving sequel, he takes a job as a bouncer at a New York club called The Strap, which caters to the bondage trade. But when the 15-year-old daughter of his former colonel turns up at the club and is menaced by a tough Brit who happens to be an SAS commando, Atticus quickly finds himself back in the action.

From Library Journal

Atticus Kodiak, once an army-trained bodyguard and now a bouncer in a New York sex club, saves Erika, the daughter of his profane army commander, from a kidnapping by the SAS (the British equivalent of SEALS). Enlisting friends from a professional bodyguard agency, Kodiak sets up a "safe house" for Erika?just in time. A shoot-out in midtown Manhattan in which Atticus is wounded, and not for the last time, is the first in a series of violent episodes. When Erika runs away, the plot churns faster. Rucka (Keeper, LJ 5/1/96) has written a suspenseful story with powerful surprises. A sentence here and there goes clunk, and one key plot twist doesn't quite make sense, but if you can handle the blood and the violence, Finder pulls you to a satisfying conclusion. Recommended for mature readers.?Robert C. Moore, DuPont Merck Pharmaceuticals, Framingham, Mass.

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